attained the age of twenty-five years, an unmarried legitimate or adopted daughter; (ia) a widowed mother; (ii) if wholly dependant on the earnings ... parent other than a widowed mother, (b) a minor illegitimate son, an unmarried illegitimate daughter or a daughter legitimate or adopted or illegitimate if married
widow, a minor legitimate or adopted son, an unmarried legitimate or adopted daughter or a widowed mother; and (ii) if wholly dependant on the earnings ... parent other than a widowed mother, (c) a minor illegitimate son, an unmarried illegitimate daughter or a daughter legitimate or illegitimate or adopted if married
mother; (v) his or her unmarried daughter, or the unmarried daughter of his predeceased son or the unmarried daughter of a predeceased ... viii) his or her minor illegitimate son, so long as he remains a minor; (ix) his or her illegitimate daughter, so long as she remains
cases cited to us have all been cases of illegitimate sons and not of illegitimate daughters except one or two cases which I shall refer ... contemplated by the text in the Mitakshara that besides the illegitimate sons, illegitimate daughters also should get some right of maintenance, such right would certainly
then contended that references to daughters in the Mitakshara should be read as including all daughters, both legitimate and illegitimate, and that all alike should ... property which the daughter succeeded to being stridhana, there could not be any nearer heir than the daughter and the illegitimate daughter being held entitled
that plaintiffs Nos. 1 and 2 are his illegitimate sons and the third plaintiff his illegitimate daughter. Maintenance is claimed at Rs. 500 a mouth ... ground that the Mitakshara referred only to an illegitimate son and not to an illegitimate daughter.
20. Benson and Bhashyam Iyengar, JJ., in Lingappa Goundan
mother having died. It is a case where the daughter's daughters though illegitimate were held entitled to succeed to their maternal grandmothers ... property though she was illegitimate as an undisputed proposition, but refused to extend the illegitimate daughter's right to inherit to her grandmother
daughters:
(15) On failure of all the daughters' the daughters' daughters take, under this text, 'It will go to the daughters ... there be daughters as well as daughters' daughters simultaneously, a tuifle only should be given to the daughters' daughters. As has been directed
gives only a Page 1203 limited legitimacy to illegitimate child and the contention that illegitimate daughter can become coparcener because of Section ... question, however, is; he has no illegitimate son but he left behind him five illegitimate daughters. Two of those daughters were unmarried when Section
engraft exceptions on that rule. If it were strictly applied, an illegitimate daughter could not succeed to the stridhanam of her own mother; nor could ... mother succeed to her illegitimate daughter; and, similarly, a putative father could not succeed to his illegitimate son. The Courts recognised the obvious inequity
